The students who are physically not able to go to school will be able to get the benefit of the PM eVidya Scheme. The students will be provided education on various terms and the students will be able to get an education even on television or through radio stations. Also, the students will be able to get books and textbooks available to them through the development of this scheme and there are also other schemes that tie up with this scheme in order to provide opportunities to the students who are not able to get educational resources. You can check out the details related to the benefits and the features of the one nation one digital platform from the article provided below.
What Is PM eVidya?
The PM eVidya Scheme is provided in order to provide digital access to education to all of the children who are not able to otherwise get schooling opportunities. The scheme will benefit more than 25 crore school-going children and all of the children will be able to get an education without having to worry about the financial differences that they are going through. There are different schemes available under this umbrella term of the PM eVidya scheme and there are a lot of benefits that will be provided through the implementation of this scheme. Digital Infrastructure For Knowledge Sharing has formally launched by the Vice President of India in the year 2017 in order to provide proper opportunities to all the students in India.
Also Read: National Education Policy
Benefits Of PM eVidya
There are a lot of benefits which will be available to the people who are applying for this scheme:-
- A channel will open which will dedicate to education on TV and the students who do not have access to the internet will be able to get the benefit of education through their television.
- The portal will act as a one-stop solution for all of the learnings and needs that the students have.
- There will be a special radio podcast arranged for blind and hearing-impair students.
- The students will be able to study through the online content available within the comfort of their own houses.
- Experts will be able to conduct live interactions from their homes via Skype or any other mode of video conferencing.
- The mental health and other well-being of students will also be into consideration by launching a channel.
- The e-content available on the Internet will include around 200 new textbooks
- Top universities will allow starting online classes for the development of the students.
- The use of radio, community radio, and podcasts for education has been suggests by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
- There will be a single-dedicate channel per class from class 1 to 12 which will be known as ‘one class, one channel’.
- To ensure that the National Founders Literacy and Numeris Mission, each child receives learning levels and results in grade 5 by December 2020.
Features Of Diksha Portal
- QR Code – National Digital Infrastructure for Teachers and students can access it after scanning the QR code provided in their NCERT books. After scanning the QR code, the portal will come up with suggestions and topics that you want to study.
- Language – The portal is accessible in English and varied languages that include Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and so (18 languages). You can choose any language depending upon your comfort and convenience.
- Location-based – The portal would first ask for the location to which you belong. For example, if you choose Delhi as an option, it would further ask you to choose ‘sub-location’ means in which locality of Delhi you reside. Accordingly, it will show you the courses that are going on in that region from which you can choose the desired course as per your skill set.
- Class-Based – DIKSHA portal requires a user to choose the class whose study material has to access. Click on the standard whose study material you wish to access and enter the SUBMIT button.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must follow the following eligibility criteria to apply for the PM scheme:-
- The applicant must be a student
- The applicant must be a permanent resident of India
Required Documents
The following documents are requires in order to apply for this scheme:-
- Aadhar card
- Identity card
- Passport size photograph
- Ration card
- Income certificate
- Residence certificate
- Passport size photograph
- Mobile number
PM eVidya View Dashboard
To check the dashboard of the scheme you will have to follow the simple procedure given below:-
- First of all, you have to go to the official website of the Diksha portal
- The home page will open before you
- On the homepage, you are required to click on the dashboard
- A new page will open on your screen.
- On this page, you can view the dashboard
Download Mobile App
To download the mobile application you will have to follow the simple procedure given below:-
- First of all, you have to go to the official website of the Diksha portal
- The home page will open before you
- Now you are required to click on get app
- A new page will open on your screen.
- On this page, you have to click on get it on Google Play
- You will be redirected to Google Play Store
- Now you have to click on install
- A Mobile app will be downloaded to your device
View Courses Details
To check the details of the courses you will have to follow the simple procedure given below:-
- First of all, you have to go to the official website of the Diksha portal
- The home page will open before you
- On the homepage, you are required to click on Explore Diksha
- A new page will open on your screen.
- On this page, you have to select board medium and class
- After that you have to click on submit
- The details will be on your computer screen.